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On 6 November 2008, a group of approximately twenty students from the
School of Management (SOM), led by Dr. Ilkka Kauranen,
visited the Thailand Science Park and National Science and Technology
Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology.

From left, Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar,
Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai,
Mrs. Tarita Mehendale, Mr. Adesh Gaekwad and Dr. Pritam K.
Shrestha.

Mrs. Tarita Mehendale, Founder Secretary and Chairperson of Indira
Group of Institutes (IGI), India and Mr. Adesh Gaekwad, Executive
Director, Project and Public Relation Trustee visited AIT and met with
Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean, School of Engineering and
Technology, Dr Nitin Afzulpurkar, Associate Dean, SET, Dr. Pritam K.
Shrestha, Head-ERCO and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Program Officer,
ERCO.

Mrs.

· Charoen Pokphand Group, Asia’s leading conglomerate with businesses and affiliates operating within the  agribusiness, retail and telecommunications industries. What are they looking for? Graduates with electrical, environment, mechanical, industrial and safety engineering and business management backgrounds having good business perspective and problem-solving capabilities.

Worried with what’s happening around - the milk scare; the US financial crisis; the political demonstrations; inflation? Do not fret…beyond the uncertainties of the times, employers are  out there and they are eyeing to hire AIT’s excellent students and graduates.

AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust visited
the NanoThailand
Symposium 2008 with Vice President for Research, Prof. S. K.
Rakshit. Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, Vice President for External Relations
also
visited the exhibition on the morning of the November 6th.

The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will hold the Third GMSARN International Conference 2008 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", 12-14 November 2008 at Kunming, China.

news-and-events/2008/events/Seminar 27 11 08_Invitation and Program.pdf

AIT President
Prof. Said Irandoust addresses
capacity crowd at the CSR Asia Summit 2008 opening session.

Watch the summit online here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjRDgwGqDew

CSR is good for Asian business in
uncertain economic times, keynote speakers stress
 

For two days last week the Asian Institute of Technology was the
final destination for representatives of global corporate giants and
civil society who arrived en masse to participate at the CSR Asia
Summit 2008, Asia’s most notable annual conference on the issue of
corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Organized by Hong Kong-based partner CSR Asia, the two-day conference
hosted by AIT Extension from 3-4 November brought together over 350
participants from Europe, North America and Asia, representing wide
array of social enterprises and private sector interests interested in
advancing the cause of CSR in the region.